An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5975-01-281-7270
NSN 5910-01-415-0273
NSN 5930-00-959-1439
NSN 6150-01-576-9624
NSN 6650-01-290-4001
NSN 6135-01-387-0754
NSN 6145-00-900-2161
NSN 5975-01-412-4552
NSN 6110-00-690-2465
NSN 5895-00-862-5564
NSN 5996-01-482-5306
NSN 5999-01-339-1325